Richard J. Davidson PhD
Richard J. Davidson, PhD
Vilas Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry
Director, Center for Investigating Healthy Minds
University of Wisconsin – Madison
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Dr. Davidson is a William James and Vilas Research Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received his PhD from Harvard University in Psychology and has been at Wisconsin since 1984.
He has published more than 250 articles, chapters and reviews, and has edited 13 books. He is the recipient of numerous awards for his research, including the most distinguished award for science given by the American Psychological Association – the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award.
In 2003, Dr. Davidson was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and to the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters in 2004. Time Magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2006, the year he was also awarded the first Mani Bhaumik Award by UCLA for advancing the understanding of the brain and conscious mind in healing. Madison Magazine named him Person of the Year in 2007. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Mind and Life Institute.
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- Heller AS, Johnstone T, Shackman AJ, Light S, Peterson M, Kolden G, Kalin N, Davidson RJ, (in press). Reduced capacity to sustain positive emotion in major depression reflects diminished maintenance of fronto-striatal brain activation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106(52): 22445–22450, 2009
- Lutz A, Slagter H, Rawling N, Francis A, Greischar LL, Davidson RJ, Mental training enhances attentional stability: Neural and behavioral evidence. Journal of Neuroscience 29(42): 13418 –13427, 2009
- Lutz A, Brefczynski-Lewis JA, Johnstone T, Davidson RJ, Regulation of the neural circuitry of emotion by compassion meditation: Effects of meditative expertise. PLoS ONE 3(3): e1897, 2008
- Lutz A, Slagter HA, Dunne J, Davidson RJ, Attention regulation and monitoring in meditation. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 12(4): 163-169, 2008
- Slagter HA, Lutz A, Greischar LL, Francis AD, Nieuwenhuis S, Davis JM, & Davidson R J, Mental training affects use of limited brain resources. PLoS Biology 5(6): e138, 2007
- Urry, HL, van Reekum CM, Johnstone T, Kalin N, Thurow ME, Schaefer HS, Jackson CA, Frye CJ, Greischar LL, Alexander, AL, Davidson RJ, Amygdala and ventromedial prefrontal cortex are inversely coupled during regulation of negative affect and predict the diurnal pattern of cortisol secretion among older adults. Journal of Neuroscience 26: 4415-4425, 2006